An 18-year-old student strode into his vocational school in Crimea, a hoodie covering his blonde hair, then pulled out a shotgun and opened fire on Wednesday, killing 19 students and wounding more than 50 others before killing himself.

It wasn’t clear what prompted Vladislav Roslyakov, described as a shy loner, to go on the rampage. A security camera image carried by Russian media showed him calmly walking down the stairs of the school in the Black Sea city of Kerch, the shotgun in his gloved hand.

“He was walking around and shooting students and teachers in cold blood,” said Sergei Aksyonov, the regional leader in Crimea.

Officials said the fourth-year student killed himself in the library of the Kerch Polytechnic College after the attack. His mother, a nurse, was helping to treat victims at a local hospital after the shootings, unaware yet that her son was accused of the rampage and was already dead.

Such school shootings are rare, and Wednesday’s attack was by far the worst by a disgruntled student in Russia, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

A woman has shared the invoice she received from a bride for attending her hen do — with the itemised list including 34 cents for Sprite.

The unnamed woman shared a screenshot of a message from the bride, Sarah, entitled “bachelorette expenses”.

Posting it on Reddit, she captioned the image: “So I received an invoice from the bachelorette party.”

Sarah had listed the total cost of foods, gifts and decor, and then divided the cost by seven, presumably the number of people who attended the hen’s party.

But not just pricey items — the bride-to-be had even taken the time to list the wholesale cost of Sprite for $1.68 ($A2.36), charging her guests 24 cents (A34 cents) each.

And it seems one brand wasn’t enough, as she also listed the $2.50 ($A3.52) cost of lemonade, which worked out to 36 cents (A51 cents) per guest.

Other items on the list include M&Ms, watermelon, cupcakes, plates, cotton candy and a pool tutu.

The total cost for the bride came to $166.67 ($A234.44), meaning each person was being asked to cough up $23.81 ($A33.49).

The woman branded her friend “insane” for sending around an itemised list.

“She said it was byob so you brought my own but we also ended up having to pay for the alcohol she bought.”

People were shocked by the list, with one person writing: “Omg, did this come from the bride? I thought this was some overbearing Maid of Honour (which I would kinda get a little bit more). This is appalling!”

Another said: “Do not pay this. It’s tacky, and was not previously agreed upon.”

The engineer who issued a safety certificate for Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids ride despite never seeing any maintenance logs has defended his decision.

A month before four people died on the ride in 2016, Thomas Polley was tasked by the theme park to carry out an inspection as part of workplace health and safety regulations.

In a report dated October 17, 2016, Mr Polley deemed the ride to be mechanically and structurally safe to use.

On October 25, a malfunction on one of the ride’s water pumps led to two rafts colliding and flipping, resulting in the deaths of Cindy Low, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozi Araghi.

During the inquest into their deaths, Mr Polley hit back against the suggestion the lack of logbooks meant he shouldn’t have issued the safety certificate.

“I don’t agree with that because the ride to me was structurally and mechanically safe,” Mr Polley told the Southport Coroners Court on Wednesday. Mr Polley was also queried on why he had marked the logbook area of his report as “no fault found” when regulators relied on the information to ensure compliance.

“Whether the regulator looks at it or not is not a big issue for me,” he replied.

The inquest will resume at 9.30am today.

Engineering consultant Thomas Polley (left) is seen leaving the Magistrates Court at Southport on the Gold Coast. Picture: Dave Hunt/AAPSource:AAP

A UK bride claims she was left looking like she’d been attacked by “flesh-eating bugs” after she underwent a botched procedure to have a tattoo removed from her arm.

Stephanie Lynn, 28, had a skull and roses tattooed on her arm that she wanted removed before her upcoming wedding but after visiting a tattoo removal clinic in Glasgow she was left wishing she had never gone.

What should have been a routine procedure at cosmetics company Fresh Faced left her arm blistered and swollen with chunks of flesh gouged out of her arm.

“The pain is like electric shocks that come and go up my arm randomly. I can be fine for days then something will trigger it and then it can be really sore for a few days,” she told The Sun.

“I haven’t had it confirmed why it happened to my arm, I spoke to someone who thought the machine might be faulty which is why it would have caused holes in my arm and scarring.”

Ms Lynn said not only did the procedure leave her in constant pain, she is so self-conscious about her arm that she may have to postpone the whole wedding.

The mum-of-two took to Facebook to warn others about the botched procedure, claiming it made her hand swell up to four times it’s normal size.

“I will attach photos but it is disgusting. I am now permanently scarred from it. And after me thinking it was settling down I now have more blisters appear weeks later,” she wrote.

The Greens and women’s rights activists are urging the NSW Government to follow the example of Queensland and decriminalise abortion.

NSW is the last holdout after the Queensland parliament on Wednesday night passed laws to legalise abortion up to 22 weeks’ gestation after two days of emotional debate.

“NSW is now the last state in Australia where abortion is still technically a crime and it is past time that this outdated and offensive section is removed from the Crimes Act in NSW,” NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann said. She added access to safe, affordable and legal abortion services should be a right for all women in NSW.

The call was echoed by Women’s rights organisation Fair Agenda.

“The system in NSW is hurting women; it is out of touch and out of date,” Fair Agenda’s executive director Renee Carr said.

“Queensland’s historic reform was just passed with support from members in the ALP, LNP, Greens and an independent. This issue is above partisan politics, and it’s time NSW brought its laws out of the dark ages.”

—AAP

Pro-choice activists seen during a rally ahead of the Queensland vote. Picture: Glenn Hunt/AAPSource:AAP

In Summary

On news.com.au today, NSW is being urged to follow in the footsteps of Queensland after the state government decriminalised abortion, there are rumours that Barnaby Joyce could challenge Michael McCormack for the position of Nationals leader, and a bride was left devesated after going through with a botched tattoo removal that left her in permanent pain.